OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Soft Robotics is 21. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-08-01 to 2023-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Soft Robotics in Minimally Invasive Surgery	243
Octopus Arm-Inspired Tapered Soft Actuators with Suckers for Improved Grasping	128
A Geometrically Exact Model for Soft Continuum Robots: The Finite Element Deformation Space Formulation	119
Magnetically Actuated Soft Capsule Endoscope for Fine-Needle Biopsy	101
Fully Wearable Actuated Soft Exoskeleton for Grasping Assistance in Everyday Activities	91
Toward a Common Framework and Database of Materials for Soft Robotics	89
A Fully Multi-Material Three-Dimensional Printed Soft Gripper with Variable Stiffness for Robust Grasping	88
Fluidic Fabric Muscle Sheets for Wearable and Soft Robotics	82
Closed-Loop Haptic Feedback Control Using a Self-Sensing Soft Pneumatic Actuator Skin	82
A Versatile Soft Crawling Robot with Rapid Locomotion	79
Novel Bending and Helical Extensile/Contractile Pneumatic Artificial Muscles Inspired by Elephant Trunk	74
Fiber Optic Shape Sensing for Soft Robotics	73
Hybrid Jamming for Bioinspired Soft Robotic Fingers	72
A Wearable Soft Haptic Communicator Based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuators	72
Bioinspired Three-Dimensional-Printed Helical Soft Pneumatic Actuators and Their Characterization	71
Soft Rod-Climbing Robot Inspired by Winding Locomotion of Snake	71
Design, Modeling, and Evaluation of Fabric-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Soft Wearable Assistive Gloves	60
Shape Memory Alloy-Based Soft Finger with Changeable Bending Length Using Targeted Variable Stiffness	57
Fabrication and Dynamic Modeling of Bidirectional Bending Soft Actuator Integrated with Optical Waveguide Curvature Sensor	55
MakeSense: Automated Sensor Design for Proprioceptive Soft Robots	54
Electrohydraulic Actuator for a Soft Gripper	51
An Origami Continuum Robot Capable of Precise Motion Through Torsionally Stiff Body and Smooth Inverse Kinematics	49
A Machine-Learning-Based Approach to Solve Both Contact Location and Force in Soft Material Tactile Sensors	49
Harnessing Viscous Flow to Simplify the Actuation of Fluidic Soft Robots	48
Sensorized, Flat, Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Embedded with Biomimetic Microfluidic Sensors for Proprioceptive Feedback	46

Swimming Performance of a Tensegrity Robotic Fish	46
Soft Robots for Ocean Exploration and Offshore Operations: A Perspective	43
Additive Manufacturing for Self-Healing Soft Robots	42
Adaptive Variable Stiffness Particle Phalange for Robust and Durable Robotic Grasping	41
On Planar Discrete Elastic Rod Models for the Locomotion of Soft Robots	39
Pneumatically Actuated Soft Gripper with Bistable Structures	39
Swimming Performance of the Frog-Inspired Soft Robot	39
Interfacing Soft and Hard: A Spring Reinforced Actuator	39
Modal-Based Kinematics and Contact Detection of Soft Robots	38
Bio-Inspired Shape-Adaptive Soft Robotic Grippers Augmented with Electroadhesion Functionality	38
Twisted-and-Coiled Actuators with Free Strokes Enable Soft Robots with Programmable Motions	38
MagWorm: A Biomimetic Magnet Embedded Worm-Like Soft Robot	38
Laser-Profiled Continuum Robot with Integrated Tension Sensing for Simultaneous Shape and Tip Force Estimation	37
Soft and Fast Hopping–Running Robot with Speed of Six Times Its Body Length Per Second	37
A Super-Lightweight and Soft Manipulator Driven by Dielectric Elastomers	36
Directional Shape Morphing Transparent Walking Soft Robot	35
Circular Shell Gripper for Handling Food Products	35
Novel Accordion-Inspired Foldable Pneumatic Actuators for Knee Assistive Devices	34
Body Wave Generation for Anguilliform Locomotion Using a Fiber-Reinforced Soft Fluidic Elastomer Actuator Array Toward the Development of the Eel-Inspired Underwater Soft Robot	34
Phase Changing Materials-Based Variable-Stiffness Tensegrity Structures	33
Fiber Jamming Transition as a Stiffening Mechanism for Soft Robotics	33
A Deformable Interface for Human Touch Recognition Using Stretchable Carbon Nanotube Dielectric Elastomer Sensors and Deep Neural Networks	32
Reachability Improvement of a Climbing Robot Based on Large Deformations Induced by Tri-Tube Soft Actuators	31
Passive Morphological Adaptation for Obstacle Avoidance in a Self-Growing Robot Produced by Additive Manufacturing	31
Multimaterial 3D Printing for Microrobotic Mechanisms	31
Soft Humanoid Hands with Large Grasping Force Enabled by Flexible Hybrid Pneumatic Actuators	31
Harnessing the Multistability of Kresling Origami for Reconfigurable Articulation in Soft Robotic Arms	31
Untethered Soft Robotics with Fully Integrated Wireless Sensing and Actuating Systems for Somatosensory and Respiratory Functions	30
A Layer Jamming Actuator for Tunable Stiffness and Shape-Changing Devices	29
Analytical Modeling and Design of Generalized Pneu-Net Soft Actuators with Three-Dimensional Deformations	29
Rolling Locomotion of Cable-Driven Soft Spherical Tensegrity Robots	29
Design and Computational Modeling of a 3D Printed Pneumatic Toolkit for Soft Robotics	28
Texture Discrimination with a Soft Biomimetic Finger Using a Flexible Neuromorphic Tactile Sensor Array That Provides Sensory Feedback	28
Designing Fiber-Reinforced Soft Actuators for Planar Curvilinear Shape Matching	27
Pre-Programmed Tri-Layer Electro-Thermal Actuators Composed of Shape Memory Polymer and Carbon Nanotubes	27
An Underwater Robotic Manipulator with Soft Bladders and Compact Depth-Independent Actuation	27
Multimode Grasping Soft Gripper Achieved by Layer Jamming Structure and Tendon-Driven Mechanism	27
Lightweight Highly Tunable Jamming-Based Composites	27
Unfolding Textile-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Wearable Applications	26
Recent Progress of Soft Electrothermal Actuators	26
Variable Stiffness Devices Using Fiber Jamming for Application in Soft Robotics and Wearable Haptics	26
Photoresponsive Hydrogel Microcrawlers Exploit Friction Hysteresis to Crawl by Reciprocal Actuation	26
SoGut: A Soft Robotic Gastric Simulator	25
Pneumatic Supply System Parameter Optimization for Soft Actuators	25
Exploring Behaviors of Caterpillar-Like Soft Robots with a Central Pattern Generator-Based Controller and Reinforcement Learning	25
Toward Task Autonomy in Robotic Cardiac Ablation: Learning-Based Kinematic Control of Soft Tendon-Driven Catheters	25
Integration, Sensing, and Control of a Modular Soft-Rigid Pneumatic Lower Limb Exoskeleton	25
Characteristic Analysis and Design Optimization of Bubble Artificial Muscles	24
Patient-Specific Magnetic Catheters for Atraumatic Autonomous Endoscopy	24
A Novel Fabric Muscle Based on Shape Memory Alloy Springs	24

A Bioinspired Soft Swallowing Robot Based on Compliant Guiding Structure	24
A Novel Tendon-Driven Soft Actuator with Self-Pumping Property	24
Modeling and Analysis of Soft Pneumatic Actuator with Symmetrical Chambers Used for Bionic Robotic Fish	24
Optimal Design of a Compliant Constant-Force Mechanism to Deliver a Nearly Constant Output Force Over a Range of Input Displacements	24
Twisted Rubber Variable-Stiffness Artificial Muscles	23
Mechanoreception for Soft Robots via Intuitive Body Cues	23
Single-Input Control of Multiple Fluid-Driven Elastic Actuators via Interaction Between Bistability and Viscosity	23
Soft Miniaturized Actuation and Sensing Units for Dynamic Force Control of Cardiac Ablation Catheters	23
Soft Actuators Based on Liquid–Vapor Phase Change Composites	22
3D Printing Microactuators for Soft Microrobots	22
Design and Development of a Growing Pneumatic Soft Robot	22
A Soft Ring-Shaped Actuator for Radial Contracting Deformation: Design and Modeling	22
Optical Sensor-Embedded Pneumatic Artificial Muscle for Position and Force Estimation	21
Limpet II: A Modular, Untethered Soft Robot	21
An Exoneuromusculoskeleton for Self-Help Upper Limb Rehabilitation After Stroke	21
Position and Force Control of a Soft Pneumatic Actuator	21
3D Printed Biomimetic Soft Robot with Multimodal Locomotion and Multifunctionality	21